Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.